Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, protección de bases de datos y compilaciones
Decreto Legislativo No. 66 (2024), art. 17
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In force since 15 February 2025.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- A database or compilation is protected here only where the selection or arrangement of its contents is an original creation; there is no separate right in the underlying data itself.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Licensing
What this law does
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Article 17 protects, without prejudice to rights in an underlying work, anthologies or compilations of diverse works or of data or other materials, including databases in machine-readable form, where the selection or arrangement of the materials constitutes an original creation.
The article confers no sui generis right in the data or contents themselves; protection turns on the originality of the selection or arrangement, the same standard the copyright chapter applies to any other compiled work.
The Intellectual Property Law (Decreto Legislativo No. 66) replaced the 1993 Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (Decreto Legislativo No. 604, as amended) and entered into force six months after its 15 August 2024 publication in the Diario Oficial, per its own article 340 and WIPO Lex's record of that law.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, WIPO Lex record for El Salvador (WIPO Lex No. SV046)